{"id":6630,"date":"2014-01-18T21:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2014-01-19T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T18:52:50","slug":"more-details-on-where-the-rolling-stones-wrote-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/01\/18\/more-details-on-where-the-rolling-stones-wrote-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"More details on where the Rolling Stones wrote &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>As I noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/07\/11\/when-the-rolling-stones-stayed-in-savannah\/\" target=\"_blank\">in a post last summer<\/a>, there have been rumors that the Rolling Stones wrote &#8220;(I Can&#8217;t Get No) Satisfaction&#8221; while at a Savannah motel in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>In comments on that post, Stan Deaton of the Georgia Historical Society noted that &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; was finished in Clearwater, Fl. right after the stay in Savannah, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that their night in Savannah or their gig at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro might have spawned the breakout hit.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to writer, journalist, and music fan Dana Brown, we now have a little more detail on &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; directly from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee <a href=\"http:\/\/rockhall.com\/inductees\/andrew-loog-oldham\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Loog Oldham<\/a>, who managed the Stones in the critical early years of their career.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Oldham&#8217;s recent reply to Brown&#8217;s query on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danabrownsav\">@danabrownsav<\/a> at clearwater hotel in FL, building now a scientology center. 6th floor.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Loog Oldham (@loogoldham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loogoldham\/statuses\/421714120648310784\">January 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Fort Harrison Hotel &#8212; where the Stones wrote &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; &#8212; is now a Scientology religious retreat. Again with a hat tip to Dana, take a look at Technorati&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/entertainment\/glosslip\/article\/the-fort-harrison-hotel-where-scientologists-check-in-but-minds-and-wallets-check-out\" target=\"_blank\">The Fort Harrison Hotel, Where Scientologists Check In&#8230; But Minds and Wallets Check Out<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/quotsatisfactionquot-comes-to-keith-richards\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a more detailed account of what went on in that Clearwater Hotel room.]<\/p>\n<p>But maybe &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; was still <em>about<\/em> Savannah or Statesboro or the inauspicious opening days of the band&#8217;s southern tour?<\/p>\n<p>From Stanley Booth&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=A8d9lD_cw9oC&#038;pg=PA175&#038;lpg=PA175&#038;dq=%22rolling+stones%22+and+satisfaction+and+savannah&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=iSKoozwUSR&#038;sig=N2Ifn-5065kjxyGIREY4Vlhoo9A&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=1DTbUveQN4S3sAT0u4CoAg&#038;ved=0CGwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&#038;q=%22rolling%20stones%22%20and%20satisfaction%20and%20savannah&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back to the motel, nothing to do in Clearwater but sit by the pool. [&#8230;] Mick and Keith were working on a song that had developed from their failure, the last time they were at the Chess Studios, to record Martha and the Vandellas&#8217; &#8220;Dancing in the Streets.&#8221; Keith didn&#8217;t like the new song because the guitar figure was simple-minded, but the song expressd real feelings in strong, direct terms. While Mick and Keith wrote &#8220;Satisfaction,&#8221; Brian quarreled with his girl, an airline stewardess, hitting her, and one of the road managers slugged him, cracking one of his ribs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For lots more info about that brief stay in Savannah and the poorly received show in Statesboro, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/07\/11\/when-the-rolling-stones-stayed-in-savannah\/\" target=\"_blank\">When The Rolling Stones stayed in Savannah. . .<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in a post last summer, there have been rumors that the Rolling Stones wrote &#8220;(I Can&#8217;t Get No) Satisfaction&#8221; while at a Savannah motel in 1965. In comments on that post, Stan Deaton of the Georgia Historical&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/01\/18\/more-details-on-where-the-rolling-stones-wrote-satisfaction\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[1235],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livingsavannah","category-music","tag-the-rolling-stones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-18-at-9.42.34-PM.png?fit=302%2C239","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}